Both the men's and women's competitions were held in New Jersey, with the men playing at Galloway National Golf Club and the women playing at the Trenton Country Club.
In the men's three-round event, the Big Green finished with a team score of 934 strokes, matching Princeton. The University of Pennsylvania led all teams with a score of 904 for the Quakers' first Ivy title since 1998. Other than Brown, which shot a 914, every other school shot over 920 for the weekend.
"We were thinking victory, but anywhere in the top three would have been a good result in a very solid Ivy League," captain Matt Uretsky '07 said.
The Big Green men started the final round with sole possession of fifth place, shooting a 310 and a 302 in the first and second rounds.
However, the team faltered on the last round, shooting a 322 to fall to a shared sixth spot. Though arguably not as agonizing as Columbia's final round fall from first to third, Dartmouth blew the opportunity to best Harvard, Princeton and Yale, who all caught up to or passed the Big Green in the final round.
Cornell experienced an even more drastic fall. The Big Red held fourth place heading into the final round and plummeted to the bottom of the pack, with a 331 to finish the competition.
"The tournament was marked by parity throughout the field, which made it an exciting tournament," Uretsky said.
Wallace tied for the tenth-best round in the tournament, shooting a 74, 77 and 77 for a 228 total on the par 71 course. Uretsky had the team's best single round, a two-over 73, sandwiched between two outings of 81 and 84 for a total of 238.
Dave Putney '10 had the second-best compiled score on the team, hitting a 233, and shot a 76 in two out of the three rounds. Rob Henley '09 and Steve Reyes '07 shot a 238 and a 252 over the weekend, respectively.
"David Putney had a solid week for us, and Jamie Wallace played steady as always," Uretsky said.
The Dartmouth women played more consistently than the men. In their three-round tournament at Trenton, the team shot a 339, 340 and 343 to finish with a 1022 for the weekend.
For the second time in two weeks, the Big Green bested Brown, this time by 12 strokes. Columbia, with a final score of 933, won its first Ivy League title in women's golf.
The Dartmouth women held the sixth place spot through each round of play. The Big Green was just behind fifth-place Penn, which finished with a 1,009, but still ended play comfortably ahead of Brown.
The Big Green improved from last year's performance, when the team finished 19 strokes behind the sixth place finisher. The competition between the Ivy schools lacked suspense in the closing round, as no team finished within ten strokes of any other.
Zhang finished shooting 248, best on the team and 19th best at the competition, to cap off an impressive rookie season. Ann Kapusta '07, Hayley Stevens '07 and Annie Daher '07 completed their golfing careers at Dartmouth shooting 258, 263 and 264 for the three rounds, respectively. Lauren Strickler '09 shot a 259.
"Sunny [Zhang] had a pretty good tournament," Stevens said. "Other than that, the rest of us didn't play that well."
With the Hanover Country Club still closed and the nearby driving range only opening in the past few days, the teams have had little practice time outside Leverone Field House.
Since the Big Green's more southern rivals have not shared this hardship, the whims of the weather have certainly taken their toll on Dartmouth golf.
"We really haven't been able to practice and prepare like we would have liked," Stevens said.
The Ivy League Championships wrapped up the season for the Dartmouth women, but the men will be competing one last time on Saturday, April 28, and Sunday, April 29, in the University of Rhode Island Invitational at Green Valley Country Club in Portsmouth, R.I.
Last year, Dartmouth placed third in the two-round tournament out of 12 teams, and Wallace shot the second best score in the competition.
